Question

Text of Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate−we cannot consecrate−we cannot hallow−this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us−that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion−that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain−that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom−and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Which of the following excerpts from the speech could be construed as an end to slavery?

"a new birth of freedom"
"Four score and seven years ago"
"We are met on a great battle-field"
"we are engaged in a great civil war"

Answer 1

Answer: a new birth of freedom

Step-by-step explanation:

process of elimination

four score and seven years ago -nothing to do with slavery, is talking about years

we are met on a great battlefield -talks about war, not freedom

we are engaged in a great civil war -talks about the war, not freedom. could be seen as talking about having a war *because* of slavery, but neither slavery nor freedom are mentioned so it's not the best answer

a new birth of freedom -talks about freedom directly. "new birth" meaning a new way of freedom, not the same as the old way (the old way being slavery)

Answer 2

"a new birth of freedom"

Step-by-step explanation:

this new birth of freedom is implying a different sense of freedom that the slaves didn't have, thus marking the end of slavery.